SCAD Visual Resources Center

Chanel’s Mobile Art, a show made up of 20 contemporary artists creating works inspired by Coco Chanel’s quilted handbag, the “2.55,” for “February 1955″, opened in Hong Kong on Feb. 27, 2008. The show will tour for two years making stops in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, London, Moscow, and Paris, in uniquely designed structure by architect Zaha Hadid.

Read an in depth review from the International Herald Tribune, “It’s all in the (Chanel) bag: Art meets fashion” by Alexandra A. Seno (March 24, 2008).

The official site for Mobile Art.

Come learn about the digital image databases the Visual Resources Center has for you. This workshop will explore the vast in-house collection of the SCAD Digital Image Database and how the images may be used. We will also demonstrate techniques in using ARTstor by searching, saving image groups, printing study guides, researching artwork, and creating presentations. Please RSVP for workshops at vrc@scad.edu.

Workshops will be held at the Jen Library, Room 108.

Faculty workshop
Friday, April 4 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Student workshop
Friday, April 11 from 2-3 p.m.

If you have any questions about the workshops, feel free to contact us at vrc@scad.edu or call 525-4726.

Hope to see you there.

A snapshot of some of our recent acquisitions to the SCAD DID purchased from Scholars Resource. Recent acquisitions include images of furniture, jewelry, and decorative arts from Egyptian to modern times.

clockwise from upper left:

Armchair by Hans Wegner. 1949.
Shaker Sewing Table. 1861.
Cabinet from Goa, India. c.1680-1700.
French Pedestal Table. c.1804-1814

A way to narrow your search results is to search by decade. To do this, enter the first three digits of the decade you wish to search in the Date field.

For example, to find images between 1910-1919, enter “191″ in the Date field.

Above is an example of a full search query for Picasso paintings between 1910-1919.

[Digital images from Scholars Resource.]

View the newly added images of Ando Hiroshige’s One Hundred Views of Edo series from the Brooklyn Museum of Art in the SCAD DID.

To see the whole series in it’s entirety, check out the the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s online exhibition of the Once Hundred Famous Views of Edo, which will be an ongoing exhibition, which “contains many of Hiroshige’s best loved and most extraordinary prints. It is a celebration of the style and world of Japan’s finest cultural flowering at the end of the shogunate.”

ARTstor Digital Library provides images for research and presentations in disciplines in and outside the arts. ARTstor provides PDF handouts for Interdisciplinary Uses which highlight collections related to a variety of disciplines including: African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Foreign Languages and Literature, Literary Studies, Music History, Religious Studies, Theater and Dance, Women Studies, and many more.